Photography, History, Difference
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Over the past decade, historical studies of photography have embraced a variety of cultural and...
Porter, Steward, Citizen: An African American's Memoir of World War I
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In 1919, Royal Christian privately published a memoir based on his experiences in World War I....
The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
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Anand Giridharadas's deeply moving new work of narrative non-fiction tells the story of Raisuddin...
Winchester Lever-Action Rifles
Martin Pegler, Mark Stacey and Alan Gilliland
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Winchester lever-action repeating rifles are an integral part of the folklore of the American West....
The First Family: Terror, Extortion and the Birth of the American Mafia
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Before Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, there was the one-fingered, cunning Giuseppe Morello and his...
The Rastafari Movement: A North American and Caribbean Perspective
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The Rastafari Movement: A North American and Caribbean Perspective provides a historical and...
Poitier Revisited: Reconsidering a Black Icon in the Obama Age
Ian Gregory Strachan and Mia Mask
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Sidney Poitier remains one of the most recognizable black men in the world. Widely celebrated but at...
American Libraries 1730-1950
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Although new technologies appear poised to alter it, the library remains a powerful site for...
On Company Time: American Modernism in the Big Magazines
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American novelists and poets who came of age in the early twentieth century were taught to avoid...
American Prison
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In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for 9Ù an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private...